Mennen debuts Horizon Angio at SIR

Mennen Medical Corp. launched the Horizon Angio, a patient hemodynamic monitoring and documentation system for the interventional radiology market, at Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) 30th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, La., March 31 - April 5.
   
Horizon Angio is a computerized device that evaluates a large range of patient physiological parameters during peripheral arterial analysis procedures and also performs a variety of monitoring functions, said Mennen.
   
Useful to interventional radiologists and cardiologists, the system can monitor all peripheral angiography procedures, and provide a full set of peripheral diagrams with stenosis depiction including head, neck, leg and arm right and left sides, carotid, trunk and renal diagrams, said Mennen.

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